Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008	Who’s coming to the Birmingham Social Media Surgery, BAD08
I thought is was time to take stock, not least to ensure sufficient tea and coffee for the social media surgery which us Birmingham bloggy folk are organising (with BVSC ) to support voluntary and community groups in the city on Blog Action Day . If you want to know how social media...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008	Blog Action Day in Birmingham - a social media surgery for voluntary orgs.
Over here Jon Bounds has reminded us of our collective Birmingham blogger wish to mark Blog Action day next week in some shared way.  When Tom Watson asked us about this a while back there was plenty of enthusiastic muttering. The theme for blog action day 2008 is poverty,...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008	This is a no brainer for the UK.
Free Debates is an important democratic movement. They are demanding that a condition of a network getting to screen presidential debates is that they make the material available with open source/creative commons licensing, so it can be rehashed and mashed etc. It is a great idea...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Sep 4, 2008	Social Enterprise trains rats to detect mines and you can adopt one.
The social enterprise behind Hero rats has just won a £500,000 Skoll Foundation grant to develop its work using rats to sniff out threats to humans from landmines to disease. You can adopt one of the little critters for 5 euros a month.  Christmas present? Read more here and hat tip...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  May 26, 2008	Fair Play - a brief review of this partly online consultation for young people.
I’ve just played the online consultation game from the Department of Children and Families. You can find it here www.dcsf.gov.uk/playspace . Sorry to the folk at the department if I’ve slightly skewed the result. I ticked the over 13 button (which is true) as were the rest...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  May 26, 2008	Fair Play - a brief review of this partly online consultation for you people.
I’ve just played the online consultation game from the Department of Children and Families. You can find it here www.dcsf.gov.uk/playspace . Sorry to the folk at the department if I’ve slightly skewed the result. I ticked the over 13 button (which is true) as were the rest...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  May 20, 2008	Host Written
Lloyd’s comment above is about Charles Leadbeater and whether the huge amount of tweeting which is happening here at the Nesta Innovation Edge Conference will provide enough material for Charle’s next book. I’m think that a book which is mostly crown sourced would be...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  May 18, 2008	Coca Cola’s Life saving compartment. An idea from Simon Berry Inspired by Annie Lennox
My friend Simon Berry is onto something. After listening to Annie Lennox on Desert Island Disc he blogged this: By some miracle my PC and Radio Shark did record last Sunday’s (11/5/08) Desert Island Discs. Unfortunately it’s a very poor recording but this is what Annie...... [view]